Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1885 — Brady’s Picture of Lincoln. [ARTICLE]

Brady’s Picture of Lincoln.

“When did you first take President Lincoln ?” I asked. “It was just after his election, when he was coining through New York on his way to Washington. I remember Lincoln, he was so tall, gaunt and angular, and his neck was so long that I had great trouble in making a natural picture. When I got him before the camera I asked him if I might not arrange his collar, and with that he began to pull it up. “ ‘Ah,’ he said, ‘ I see yon want to shorten my neck.’ “ ‘That’s just it,’ said I, and we both laughed. The picture taken at this time had a wide sale, and Lincoln used to speak of me afterward as the man who made him acquainted with the people.”— Carp, in Cleveland Leader.